There is a clock, I think. Not easy to make out, but I seem to see a vague rectangular blur. not much darker than the background, where a clock ought to be.

"The chess-board is the world ..... the player on the other side is hidden from us ..... he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance."
(He doesn't let you resign and start again, either.)

So, I presume you use the term 'rooking' when making that rather odd move with the king and rook?

David Pritchard made that suggestion in his humorous piece "A Match At The Club". Broadcast c1961 on the BBC's chess radio programme and reprinted in Chess Treasury Of The Air.

"The chess-board is the world ..... the player on the other side is hidden from us ..... he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance."
(He doesn't let you resign and start again, either.)

I'm reading an excellent book at the moment, 'The Trap' by Melanie Raabe.
A few references to chess and that has 'Knights, Bishops and Castles'.

Anthony Buckeridge committed the same sin in Jennings Follows A Clue. Someone's chess set is knocked off his head (don't ask) and " .... castles, knights and bishops flew in all directions".

"The chess-board is the world ..... the player on the other side is hidden from us ..... he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance."
(He doesn't let you resign and start again, either.)

Good on ya, Richard. I still find some of them laugh-out-loud funny (including Clue). Actually I'm a double Jennings fan - both the fictional schoolboy, and the Oddly books by Paul Jennings. (OK Carl - there won't be any more off-topic stuff from me ....)

"The chess-board is the world ..... the player on the other side is hidden from us ..... he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance."
(He doesn't let you resign and start again, either.)

On the 10pm BBC news last night either the newsreader or the political correspondent (Laura K) said (commenting on the resignation of the Defence Secretary): " ... with the removal of this single chess piece from the board Theresa May's entire position could collapse".

Matt >Its from the Persian for chariot (rukh) - I thought that was fairly accepted and well known?<

I have little doubt that most readers here knew that. The point I was making is that many people do not.
In the Jennibgs book, to use the term 'castle' may be correct in the social context of a school for pre-teenagers who do not have a deep chess education.